Immortality and cultivation begin with full comprehension.

Chapter 96 Cruel Methods
"No!"

Fairy Linghua cried out in surprise. Before she could resist, a figure flashed behind Fu Chao, faster than lightning. The person spread his five fingers, and beams of white light shot out from his fingertips, instantly binding Fairy Linghua tightly.

"Great!"

Li Yunjing's heart stirred, and he immediately realized that Fu Shiyi's methods were extraordinary, far beyond what an ordinary Qi Refining Realm ninth-level cultivator could compare to.

Clearly, these are all experts from the Fu family.

"Hmm! Li Yunjing, you're not bad! You've already reached the fifth level of Qi Refining!"

Steward Li didn't concern himself with the Fu family's trivial matters. Instead, he immediately focused his attention on Li Yunjing. After looking at him for a while, he became more and more surprised and couldn't help but praise him.

Everyone else, including Fu Chao and the Foundation Establishment experts beside him, turned their gazes toward Li Yunjing after hearing what Steward Li said.

This kid seems a bit different?
"Hehe! Steward Li, you flatter me. I only obtained my cultivation level by sheer luck..."

Li Yunjing's heart tightened, and he recounted how he had used Fu Chao's name to scare Yue Zhouwang and his group of "Yaxiangyuan" out of 2000 contribution points.

"I used 2000 contribution points to improve my cultivation, and that's how I made progress!"

Li Yunjing added one last explanation.

He's already feeling bad being targeted by Wei Henian, and he doesn't want to be targeted by Fu Chao as well!
"Li Yunjing! You little brat! You're actually using my name to swindle and deceive people?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Chao immediately turned his attention to this.

Li Yunjing's behavior infuriated Fu Chao.

How dare this kid?
"Hehe! Young Master Fu, you gave me permission to do all this! A big shot like you can't go back on your word!"

Li Yunjing chuckled, not afraid of Fu Chao getting angry at all.

"When did I give you permission?"

Fu Chao was furious. This wretched kid really thought he was a fool and was playing with him.
"You've forgotten our second meeting, it was at 'Ya Xiang Yuan'! Back then, you called me 'brother'..."

Fu Chao felt increasingly uneasy as he listened, realizing that those words really were spoken by him.

At the time, he was just joking, but he didn't expect Li Yunjing to take it seriously and swindle him out of a large sum of money.

It's no wonder he felt bad about that.

"Young Master Fu, if you think about it this way, your little reputation is enough to make me thrive in the Divine Firmament Dao Sect. This shows just how remarkable you are!"

Li Yunjing noticed that something was wrong with Fu Chao and offered him some words of comfort.

Sure enough, these words made Fu Chao feel a little better, since he hadn't suffered any loss himself.

That was the only way he could console himself.

After all, he found Li Yunjing quite agreeable, and given Li Yunjing's close relationship with the Yu family, he had no intention of offending them.

At this moment, Fu Shiyi took out a leather bag and put it over Linghua Fairy's head. The fairy was then put into the bag and locked inside.

"Tsk tsk! He's really skilled at abducting women! Fu Chao is definitely no good!"

Li Yunjing watched in amazement.

Before the group could say anything, a series of footsteps echoed in the passageway outside.

Before long, a dozen or so people from the "Wanfa Association" appeared.

However, when these people entered the stone chamber and saw that Li Yunjing was surrounded by so many people, they were all shocked.

"You little brats, you actually came! Tsk tsk, four inner disciples and ten outer disciples, interesting! Once you're all dead, I'll see how Wei Henian explains himself to the sect!"

Looking at the newcomer, Fu Chao revealed a cruel smile.

"Fu Chao, you are also a true disciple of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect. Why do you speak like this? Aren't you afraid of breaking the sect rules?"

The leader was Ye Long, an old acquaintance of Li Yunjing. At this moment, he had completely lost the arrogance of an inner disciple. His face was filled with fear, and he summoned his flying sword to try to escape.

The same was true for the others; they had clearly been betrayed and fallen into Fu Chao's trap.

Where is Fairy Linghua?
Could it be that such a despicable woman betrayed them?

"Hehe! As a true disciple of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect, why would I kill you? I definitely won't make a move! I just don't know what they mean by this!"

As soon as Fu Chao finished speaking, the five Qi Refining Realm Level 9 experts behind him, like tigers among sheep, began to slaughter Ye Long and his group amidst their sinister laughter!
"Bang bang bang!"

A series of loud explosions followed, and the outer disciples of the "Ten Thousand Laws Association" offered no resistance. Amidst screams, their bodies were thrown several feet backward, their flesh and blood mangled, their deaths gruesome and unbearable to witness.

"Like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, you're overestimating yourselves! You dare to oppose the Fu family!"

With a cold snort, the five Qi Refining Realm experts from the Fu family continued their pursuit of the remaining inner disciples.

Seeing his comrades die one by one, Ye Long's expression changed drastically. At this moment, he almost lost all fighting spirit and ran away for his life.

Unfortunately, the difference in strength was too great. Before he could run a few steps, two Qi Refining Realm experts from the Fu family caught up and grabbed him from behind with their claws. "Crack, crack, crack," several sounds of bones breaking rang out, and Ye Long was no longer human.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The Fu family acted extremely quickly. At this moment, they didn't care about the face of being a ninth-level Qi Refining expert and thoroughly searched the bodies of Ye Long and the others.

Besides the items belonging to the "Shenxiao Dao Sect," they even stripped Ye Long and his companions of their boots and clothes.

"Sigh! So many good things, it's probably worth over ten thousand spirit stones!"

Li Yunjing sighed and stared longingly at everything before him.

Unfortunately, he wasn't entitled to a share of the spoils! After everything was packed up, the group quickly set a fire, burning everything, including the Shenxiao Dao Sect's belongings, to ashes.

"All right!"

Fu Chao nodded and looked at Li Yunjing, saying, "The matter here is over. We'll leave first. As for you, just pretend you don't know anything."

"Don't worry! I have everything under control and won't leave any evidence against me!"

Li Yun nodded solemnly.

"Not bad!"

Fu Chao nodded and led his men away first. As they disappeared into the stone chamber, Li Yunjing heard Fu Chao's voice again, "Be careful of Xu Xun!"

"Ok?"

Li Yunjing was startled and asked in confusion, "What does this mean? I don't seem to have any connection with such a prodigy, do I?"

Fu Chao's words were definitely not unfounded.

There must have been some kind of entanglement with this prodigy without my knowledge?
"Li Yunjing, cultivate diligently, I have faith in you!"

Before leaving, Steward Li gave Li Yunjing a heads-up.

Fu Chao didn't believe a word of Li Yunjing's lies!
With just a little bit of resources, how could one's cultivation level increase by four levels in less than half a year?
Even if you ate some rare and precious herbs, the effect wouldn't be this good!

However, after Li Yunjing had been thoroughly examined by him, and his entire body had been seen by the steward, leaving nothing to hide, the steward abandoned his idea of ​​further investigating Li Yunjing.

Manager Li even wondered if this kid was really a genius.
Like Xu Xun, is he a future great figure of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect"?

Such talent made Steward Li more amiable when facing Li Yunjing.

At this moment, seven thousand miles away, at the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.

"This is terrible! Four more inner disciples of the sect have perished at the same time!"

Deep within the "Heavenly Craft Hall," an inner disciple responsible for monitoring the disciples and followers couldn't help but cry out in alarm.

In front of them, within a huge light screen, countless tiny blue dots appeared, along with a few yellow dots. These dots represented the inner disciples and true disciples of the "Shenxiao Dao Sect".

Each disappearance of a dot of light signifies the fall of a disciple, and the destruction of their identity tokens.

"Huh? What's going on?"

The person's exclamation caught the attention of a steward, who couldn't help but step forward to look.

Within the "Shenxiao Dao Sect," inner disciples, true disciples, and those disciples above the Foundation Establishment Realm are all extremely important individuals.

Their identity tokens are also different from those of the outer sect members and servants, and have more functions, one of which is to allow the sect to detect their deaths as soon as possible.

Every inner disciple who has perished needs to be investigated!
It's absolutely not true that dying is in vain.

This detection system is the masterpiece of "Tiangongtang" and can monitor the situation of "Shenxiao Daozong" in real time.

"Retrieve information on the four who just perished!"

The deacon immediately gave the order.

"Yes, Deacon Li!"

Soon, an inner disciple used this complex system to compile the information on Ye Long and the other three, and handed it over to Steward Li.

"Continue the testing! I'm going to the 'Enforcement Hall'; this matter needs their investigation!"

Deacon Li gave a brief instruction before leaving with the information on Ye Long and the other three.

Each branch of the "Shenxiao Daozong" has its own responsibilities. To investigate the deaths of the four people, the "Enforcement Hall" would need to step in.

At this time, Wei Henian was unaware of the immense trouble his subordinate's death would bring him...

Li Yunjing did not hesitate and left the cave.

Since Fu Chao and his group had already entered this stronghold of the Jie cultivators, they probably wouldn't have left anything behind. He was just wasting his time here. He might as well go outside and see if he could collect some "Black Winged Centipede" corpses and kill a few Jie cultivators who had escaped.

When Li Yunjing reappeared in the outside world, the battle between Si Hezhong and Xu Xun was still going on in the void.

Si Hezhong relied on the power of the top-grade spiritual weapon to make up for his lack of combat strength and fought Xu Xun to a standstill.

On this land, which was as bright as day, countless "black-winged centipedes" began to disintegrate.

Clearly, with Ye Long and his group dead, there was no one left to control these poisonous insects to attack the disciples of the Divine Firmament Dao Sect.

Suddenly, three cultivators appeared in front of Li Yunjing. Their escape route was actually heading towards the cave!

"Boy! You've entered our cave!"

These three cultivators who managed to escape alive were naturally formidable figures, each possessing the cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining. One of the burly men seemed greatly surprised when he saw Li Yunjing.

The other two weren't much better off; both of them looked extremely pale.

"Hehe! Of course! But you guys are too poor here, there's nothing at all. I went into the cave chamber on the left and didn't find a single thing!"

Li Yunjing sneered. He wasn't afraid of his opponent. Before his voice even fell, a sword beam appeared out of thin air, and a vast sword aura slashed towards the three of them!
"Nothing was found?"

The three burly men exchanged glances, and suddenly a hint of joy flashed in their eyes.

(End of this chapter)